Improvement in machinery for finishing boot and shoe heels



C. E. RAMLOS-E.

MACHINERY FOR, FINISHING BOOT AND SHOE HEELS. No. 175,497. Iat ent edMarch 28,1876.

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IN PETERS, PKOTO-LI1HOGRAFHER. WASHINGTON. D C

UNITED STATES PATENT QFFICE.

GHRESTIAN E. RAMLOSE, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALE HISRIGHT TO NEWTON M. HOLTZINGER, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN MACHINERY FOR FINISHING BOOT AND SHOE HEELS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 175,497, dated March28, 1876; application filed December 9, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, OHREsTIAN E. RAM- LOSE, of the city and county ofSt. Louis and State of Missouri, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Machines for Finishing Heels of Boots and Shoes, whichimprovement is fully set forth in the following specification, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawin gs.

My improvement relates to a machine having rotating wheels for formingand polishing the outer side of the heels. Combined with one of thewheels is a gas -jet, by which it is heated, to impart the propertemperature to the composition used in polishing the heel.

In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of the machine. Fig. 2is a side view of the jack part in section. Fig. 3 is an axial sectionof the polishingwheel.

A is the frame of the machine, having a longitudinal bar, B, supportingthe jack by which the boot is held while the heel is subjected to theaction of the dressing and polishing wheels or disks. 0 is a carriagehaving a sliding adjustment on the bar B, and secured in place by aset-screw, D, whose end may slide in a longitudinal groove in the bottomof bar B. E is a lever fulcruined at e in ears F, and whose outer end orhandle is pressed upward by a spring, G, beneath it, and held down, whenrequired, by a hook or other suitable device, H. I is a pivot-pin orstud on the top of the lever E, on which the jack is held by a socket,J, in which the pivotpin is received. Thejack has two upwardlyextendingarms, K and L. The arm K has at top a horizontal socket, k, in whichrests a spindle, M, thrust toward the arm L by a spiral spring, N,recessed in the socket k, and resting against a collar, m, of thespindle to push it forward. This spindle has a head, m, furnished with aspike, which rests against the outside of the heel to preventit'slipping while being acted on by the finishing-wheels. At the top ofthe arm L is a stud, o, extendin line with the spindle M,

ing horizontally and furnished with a turning head, 0, which restsagainst the inner side of the heel, and which may be supplied withspikes 0, to pre-' vent the slippingof the heel upon it. P l? arestandards giving journal-bearing to the shaft Q, which is turned by apulley, q. Upon this shaft is a grinding wheel or stone, R, by which theheel may be shaped upon its outside, the heel being held between theheads m and o, and which may be freely turned with the heads, so as topresent all its whole edge to the action of the wheels. S is a metallicwheel, whose periphery may be milled so as to present a somewhatroughened surface to the heel, for the application of the polishingcomposition to the heel. One side of this wheel has an annular recess,8, into which enters a lighted jet of gas to impart heat to the wheelwithout impingement against the periphery of the wheel or the heel. Thejetburner is shown at T, and by regulating the escape of the gas theheat may be regulated as required. U is a wheel-brush or wheel coveredwith any material suitable for cleaning and buffing the heel.

In use, the jack may be arranged in position for the application of theheel to any one of the wheels, or two or more jacks may be used at thesame time by different operators, the boot-heels being first applied tothe wheel It, next ,to S, and then to U.

I claim 1. The improved jack, consisting of arm K, provided with socketis, spindle M, and spring N, and the arm L, provided with a stud, O, andturning head 0, as and for the purpose set forth. v

2. The lever E, journaled in ears F of the sliding carriage 0, spring G,and hook H, in combination with jack K L M O, as and for the purpose setforth.

OHRESIIAN E. RAMLOSE.

Witnesses:

SAML. KNIGHT, vNE TON M. HOLTZINGER.

